Yolo County Biographies
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G. M. DAMERON
G. M. DAMERON, a farmer and stock-raiser of Yolo County, was born in 1832 in
East Tennessee the son of Felix J. and Mary (Damarel) Dameron. His father, a
native of North Carolina, and a horse-trader by occupation, died in 1848, in
Cobb County, Kentucky; and his mother was a native of East Tennessee. The
Damerons were French Huguenots and came over in the same ship with the Dupuys,
Tribins and Clays, settling in Virginia and North Carolina in 1700. Mr.
Dameron�s mother was from Scotland. The subject of this notice came overland to
California in 1854, with a party of friends, some of whom are still living in
his neighborhood. He worked his way by driving stock. Stopping first in
Marysville, he followed mining and lumbering in that vicinity and in Butte
County for two years and in 1856 he settled upon his present place, where he
took up 160 acres of the best land. He now has 640 acres of well improved land,
whereon he raises grain principally and some live-stock.
In 1864, in Woodland, he married one of the ladies who came across
the plains with him, Miss Mary Browning, a native of Monroe County, Kentucky,
and they have two children living: Rowena and Charles F.; Montie B. died in
1879.
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing
Co., 1891
Transcribed by: Wendy Sandino